Worlds: Which champon you want to see in action

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I always felt Aa was too squishy for top lane. The many times I tried him, I had to rely on his E to farm.

While being a little bit squishy to burst damage, he is phenomenal (imo) against sustained damage. Considering the laning phase, it obviously depends on who he is laning against but Aatrox with Bork will out-trade a large amount of top laners. The trick is using trades to put on some damage, maybe Q'ing onto your opponent, throwing an auto or two and then hitting an E in retreat. Then, do not trade, just use Blood Thirst to heal up on creeps. With Bork, this life steal is real and you very quickly heal up any damage taken.

Aatrox, the way I see is a lane bully of sorts. He should be trying to zone the opponent and relying on the fact that the opponent will quickly realize that he will lose any trade he attempts because of the life steal. There is really only one opponent that this tactic is not perfect against and that is Vladimir but only because that is pretty much Vladimir's exact strategy as well.

Is Aatrox squishy...yes. I would not pick him into an assassin, the burst damage is too real. I do think, however, looking at the Meta picks of Worlds, top lane is pretty much Darius, Maokai/Malphite (filling very similar roles), Gnar and Fiora. (GP kind of but he's been do heavily banned it almost doesn't matter. I would say that Aatrox is decent into Darius, not as good as Gnar, but decent. Because Darius is also melee, Aatrox doesn't need to Q into him, just wait for Darius to engage, then execute the same couple autos before using E in retreat and then life stealing on creeps to win the trade. Aatrox will usually dump on tanks, especially early game. Malphite is tougher because of Armor stacking but if Malphite gets a whole bunch of armor early, that's when you just use your E as poke and whittle him down with magic damage. Gnar/Aatrox is an interesting matchup but it is winnable. Aatrox's E has enough range to poke Gnar when he is auto attacking. Granted, Gnar's bommerang has a longer range than that but, if you hide behind the creep wave, Gnar's bommerang will usually be slowed down enough by the wave to miss you; whereas the Aatrox E just goes through all targets in it's path. I think Aatrox is actually quite strong into Gnar when played as a split push threat. Aatrox into Fiora is probably just a bad idea. The burst from Fiora is too real and would require Aatrox to build to defensively to really do any damage.

Could be fun to see a Leona. But I hardly think it is going to happen.

Fair point.

Thats the reason why I want him there. Plus players could get some education on how to Bard like a pro.